No, I don't, but it is against the la for a Taxi Driver to drive drunk. OTOH there is nothing legally preventing a doctor from Operating without sleep

Very similar concerns were voiced by first the Railroad then the Trucking industry before Time On Duty limits were implemented. Given proper rules and enforcements, hospitals and surgical teams will adapt there lives to fit. In the Parent example, Seven person groups would keep On-Call and O.R. schedules in sync and non-conflicting.

There are some number of modern works that are for some reason cataloged at the turn of the last century. Try Internet for similar results.

Because by the time students reach Jr. High where a dedicated course in computers can be taught, the ones who are interested in such a course already know spreadsheets, word processors and PowerPoint -- often in more depth then the teacher. The correct solution seems to be to teach a business applications course to those who need it and still offer a Computer science class for those who have enough brains to learn business applications on their own.

What you say about unlawful enemy combatants is true assuming the following:
* you are not a US citizen
* you were captured outside the US
* you are not a member of any nations uniformed military services (you would then become a POW instead)
* you were not arrested by civilian law enforcement (including the FBI, ICE, or Border Patrol)
* no charges were presented against you in a civilian court

And sense the election of Pres. Obama:
* there is no country to which you can be safely repatriated

The HVAC system is required by building codes otherwise some companies would not provide it. Scary I know.

NY to LA would be nice but not the intent of high speed rail; SF to LA is. Or maybe NY to DC.

For both of these flights, passengers spend more time moving through airport security theater and check-in/baggage claim then they do in the air. HSR will go city center to city center with faster door-to-door times cheaper costs, more leg room, and most importantly add 25% more capacity to LAX and SFO for NY to LA and NY to HK.

Please remember that high speed rail is competing with commuter air services not morning commuters. How far is it from your work to the nearest commercially served air port?

I've said this elsewhere, but...

News publication should remain a for prophet business. Only the gathering editing of news is a public service. Particularly, local news gathering should be able to be done by not-for-profit corporations.

If what you suggest were actually done, you might have a point, but all the EMR software I've seen has a nightmare interface, numerous features disabled (and done on paper instead) because they don't comply with the law, and a security model that is modeled after having physical access to a terminal because that is how the paper charts are secured!

Honestly the current software out there makes Diebold look like a secure and competent vendor.

Keep your code and use Rack to factor out the last 5%. You can keep you code base, and still get your performance. Merb is a an excellent tool for this. It is similar enough to rails to be easy to pick up, but it is light weight and has the ability to run a small application in a single file.

Without knowing how tightly coupled that 5% is it is hard to be more specific, but definatly look into Rack.

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Please Google "tail recursion".

Erikson, Erlang, Telephone Switches. QED.

"Erlang: the language where variables don't assignments can't and loops never do."
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